Wilfrid Laurier University Selects SGI Technology for Computational Sciences
6 February 2006, 09:00am ET
SGI Altix 128-Processor System Delivers First Shared-Memory Processing Capabilities to Southwestern Ontario's SHARCNET Grid
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), one of 14 Ontario universities and colleges on the growing Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) grid, has chosen technology from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) for computational sciences, including mathematical modeling, nanotechnology, biology, quantum physics, chemistry, and a wide variety of scientific research projects. Installed in October, the SGI(R) Altix(R) system is shared with other SHARCNET members throughout southwestern Ontario and represents the first time the powerful shared memory processing of SGI architecture, which can make a huge amount of RAM available as needed, will be available on the grid. The University purchased the SGI Altix computer, with 256GB memory and 128 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors -- one of the fastest computers in Canada -- through grants from Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Research Fund....
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